God's Word Translation

Mark 2:20-24 God's Word Translation (GW)

20. But the time will come when the groom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast.

21. “No one patches an old coat with a new piece of cloth that will shrink. Otherwise, the new patch will shrink and rip away some of the old cloth, and the tear will become worse.

22. People don’t pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the wine will make the skins burst, and both the wine and the skins will be ruined. Rather, new wine is to be poured into fresh skins.”

23. Once on a day of worship Jesus was going through the grainfields. As the disciples walked along, they began to pick the heads of grain.

24. The Pharisees asked him, “Look! Why are your disciples doing something that is not permitted on the day of worship?”